TROUM - News
This extremely limited 7inch picture disc vinyl (179 copies in total) is luxuriously encased in a transparent water-proof plastic “sea & sand” die-cut printed liquid-gel pack printed gatefold sleeve.
Yes – each copy is expensive - but it is still being sold below cost (Equation is losing money on each copy). The oceanic sleeve and record - inspired, conceptualized and designed by renowned graphic artist Alan McClelland (a/k/a ::: eye.lyft ::: blogspot here) – is a testament to water, waves, oceans, rivers and seas.
Dive in …
... glistening blue enveloping aqua...
... the sea is substance - livid and lustrous and beautiful ...
Instead, we offer an old-fashioned physical, tactile, recorded artifact: a nautical single by Troum.
An elemental vinyl offering to a primordial ocean from whence we all originally came where we will all eventually return.
In "Saiws“ (an old Gothic Germanic word for “sea”) Troum manages to conjour images of the vastness and depths of the oceans, and unveils a treasure for our ears and minds.
From Troum themselves...
BLUE MANDALAS & OCEAN WAVES!
Picture-disc with unique "organic" object-cover designed by Eye.Lift: a printed gatefold "Sea & Sand" sleeve-bag filled with blue gel & blinking "sand" creating psychedelic, waving effects; on the record two tracks of nautical guitar drone-muzak, a soundtrack for oceanic imaginations, for standing at the sea; this is probably the most beautiful TROUM artifact that was ever released!
Equation Records Release Information
March 26, Sa: DRESDEN, Germany. AZ Conni www.azconni.de with DRONAEMENT
April 30, Sa: SAN DONA DI PIAVE (near VENICE), Italy. Revolver Club. "Congresse Postindustriale VIII"-Festival with K11, PETER ANDERSSON (RAISON D'ETRE, DJINN, MUERAN HUMANOS). See www.oldeuropacafe.com for details.
May 12, Th: ATHENS, Greece. Six D.O.G.S. http://sixdogs.gr/ "We Dream in Colour"-Concert Series. For this series, 7 bands perform in 7 months and release 7 x 7" vinyls in 7 different colours of the rainbow! for details contact: princeofpoverty72@yahoo.com
May 21, Sa.: GENT, Belgium. locality t.b.a. SILKEN TOFU-Festival (2 days, diverse acts) www.silkentofu.org for details: wim@silkentofu.org
June 4, Sa.: KIEV, Ukraine. Prime Club. With FILIVS MACROCOSMI. for details: arcto.promo.russia@gmail.com
Troum live in Gdansk Jan. 2011 - review & video-extracts from Alternation Magazine
http://alternation.eu/troum,id,668,relacje.html
...."This is the studio-version of Troums live-programme from 2007, performed in Arnhem (NL), Lille (FR), Prague (CZ), Leipzig, Bremen, Berlin, Frankfurt, Weingarten & Cologne (GER) (with NADJA, ASIA NOVA & VOICE OF EYE).
A new ending has been added later." ....
mail us or the labels direct if you want to order: troum@dronerecords.de
Wim Pauwels: wim@silkentofu.org www.silkentofu.org
Joseph Noarck: tourettetic@mac.com www.touretterecords.com
The new Troum album "MARE IDIOPHONIKA" is out now on CD, released in an European version by SILKEN TOFU and in a North-American version by TOURETTE Records, both are limited to 500 copies (different artwork, same audio material).
MARE IDIOPHONIKA works as a dedication to imaginable self-organized aural systems, using singing-bowls and "dry" beats for the very first time. Ingredients: bass, guitars, pulses, singing-bowls, metal-objects, voices & choirs.
TROUM & NADJA - DOMINIUM VISURGIS LP
The prolific German label DENOVALI Records has released a limited vinyl version of this album, out some months before as CD on Transgredient; the vinyl version is limited to 500 and comes in three different vinyl colours, with thick printed sleeves & inner sleeves, and on 180gr vinyl.
mail us or the label direct if you want to order: troum@dronerecords.de
Denovali Records (shop): www.denovali.com
NADJA & TROUM "Dominium Visurgis"
8-PANEL DIGIPACK w. METALLIC COPPER PRINT
DESCRIPTION:
This is something you could call a "dreamlike liaison".
When the Canadian "avant metal / drone doom"-duo NADJA (who name TROUM as one of their early influences) and the German post-industrial / experimental drone pioneers TROUM (years ago active as MAEROR TRI who are still discovered by many drone-fans these days) combine their exceptional styles, they form something even vaster as usually known from them.
These three long collaboration tracks were recorded as a result of a spontaneous improvisation in April 2008 "live in the studio" near the Weser-river in Bremen, Germany, and suck you in with their powerful & emotional drone melancholy that works in many micro-& macrocosmic ways, using electric & acoustic guitars, bass, accordeon, drum-machine & voice.
Sei es aus dem Wissen darum, dass dies nur in einer direkten Konfrontation geht, sei es aus anderen Gründen und allein der glückliche Zufall hat es bewirkt, Troum und Nadja haben mit "Dominium Visurgis" keine e-mail Zusammenarbeit auf CD gebannt, sondern sich tatsächlich im Studio getroffen und die vorliegenden drei Stücke in enger Zusammenarbeit komponiert und aufgenommen.
Denn nur die dann entstehende derartig intensive Interaktion (und eigentlich: die daraus resultierende gegenseitige Inspiration) lässt eine Atmosphäre entstehen, die noch über die eigentliche Musik hinauszustrahlen scheint, den Wirkungskreis der Musik erweitert. Bei aller Qualität, die die VÖs beider Bands sonst haben, "Dominium Visurgis" ist etwas besonderes. [Hellmut Neidhardt aka "N", Unruhr]
TRACKLISTING: 01. Dominium Visurgis Pt. 1 02. Dominium Visurgis Pt. 2 03. Dominium Visurgis Pt. 3
New Releases:
TROUM - SIGQAN CD Transgredient Records TR-06
Re-issue of the long deleted album from 2003 (Desolation House), comes with new artwork featuring UV-high gloss spots, designed by Alan McClelland.
TROUM performs in Poznan/Poland on the APOSTAZJA-Festival III, on November 21, 2009.
Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOYbH8riWRc
More Info:
http://www.myspace.com/apostazjafestival
http://www.apostazja.serpent.com.pl
Dear Troumsters, finally our new album has seen the daylight!
EALD-GE-STREON is a collection of various tracks mainly coming from analogue 8-track-sources and used for several live-programmes through the last years, all re-worked and re-mastered.
It features a powerful cover-version of SAVAGE REPUBLICs classic "Procession", and has a stunning artwork with rarely used and difficult to print metallic colours designed by STEPHEN O'MALLEY - SUNN 0))).
The first 500 copies have a bonus CD with the epic track ABHIJNA.TROUM - "EALD-GE-STRÉON" CD
Beta-lactam Ring Records mt183 www.blrrecords.com
first 500 copies w. bonus CD "Abhijna""Design, layout and artwork by Stephen O'Malley". Welcome to the Thunderdome. Troum’s bone-cracking reverberations respirate with such ferocity that all non-Troum molecules are blown away. Eald-Ge-Streon is a massive, rising beauty. It is a great becoming, and we are nothing but an ant in the afterbirth.
Troum has set its controls beyond the heart of the Sunn. The pulsating inferno of these 7 drone concertos may require an insurance adjuster, but what a lovely way to burn. It is in your nature to do one thing correctly. Before Troum, you rightly tremble. But fear is not what you owe Troum. You owe Troum awe!"
TROUM will perform a brand new live-programme with a strong ritualistic & dark chamber music influence using ethnic instruments like a bugle, an Arabian flute and a didgeridoo, with new visuals made by BarakaH!June 1, Mo: LEIPZIG: Wave-Gotik-Meeting; at the special "industrial/dark ambient" night at the Volkspalast/Kuppelhalle with HERBST 9, PHELIOS, CIRCULAR and BRACHIAL PALSY.
www.wave-gotik-treffen.de
June 4, Th: PARIS: Instants Chavires; With SMALL CRUEL PARTY!
www.instantschavires.comJune 5, Fr: BORDEAUX: L'Heretic; With ALTAIR TEMPLE.
www.hereticclub.comJune 6, Sa: LYON: Le Sonic; With NADJA and THISQUIETARMY.
www.myspace.com/soniclyonJune 12, Fr: HAMBURG: Markthalle; With NADJA, THISQUIETARMY and ALLSEITS.
www.markthalle-hamburg.de
THE DANGERS, a short film by Australian film-maker SIOUXZI MERNAGH which uses solely Troum-music as soundtrack will be premiere screened at the ICI in Berlin on April 7, 2009.
http://uncanny.ici-berlin.org
TROUM will perform at the CoC Art Festival in Torun, Poland, on Friday 27. March 2009
www.myspace.com/cocartmusicfestival
The release of our new album EALD-GE-STREON on Beta-lactam Ring Records is further delayed, but the doCD-version should be available early April!
www.blrrecords.com
For more go to -- Troum News release archives:
2008
2007
2006 - 2005
2004
2003 - 2002 - 2001
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